Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 Player Auction: Here's the full KXIP squad after Kings XI Punjab bought the likes of Nicholas Pooran and Mohammed Shami in the auctions.

Kings XI Punjab had one of the busiest IPL auctions 2019 after picking up 12 players. The most expensive buy for them was Tamil Nadu spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who was picked up for a mammoth Rs 8.40 crores. This is the most amount of money a team has spent on an uncapped Indian player in this year’s auctions. KXIP had to go big at this auction after releasing 11 players including Yuvraj Singh, Aaron Finch and Axar Patel. And that is exactly what the franchise did after going after a number of players as they had the biggest purse available at the auction.

KXIP had a shortage of pace bowlers in the team, so they went after India international Mohammad Shami and English all-rounder Sam Curran. Shami was bought for Rs 4.40 crore while Rs 7.20 crore was spent on Curran by the franchise. The wicket-keeper problem was also solved by KXIP after they bought West Indies’ Nicholas Pooran for Rs 4.2 crore. Another suprising buy was of wicket-keeper Prabhsimran Singh who was bought for Rs 4.8 crore. The squad now looks much more sorted with a balance all around the lineup. KL Rahul and Chris Gayle are the openers in the team while they have Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair and David Miller in the middle-order. The bowling is also impressive with R Ashwin, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Andrew Tye, Shami and Curran